As Neustadt notes on p. 196, Eisenhower often said, \"I am a part of the legisla

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As Neustadt notes on p. 196, Eisenhower often said, "I am a part of the legislative process." This might be surprising to some, since the president is not part of the legislative branch. Describe TWO legislative powers of the president.

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27 RICHARD NEUSTADT From Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents From this often-read book comes the dlassic concept of presidential power as the powver to persuade:" Raichard Neustadt observed the essence of presidesn when working in the executive branch during Franklin Roosevelt's as president. He stayed to serve under President Thuman. It is said that tial power u ident Kenedy brought Presidential Power with him to the White House, and Neustadt worked briefly for JFK. The first half of the excerpt, in which he shows how presidents' well-developed personal characteristics t successfiul persuasive abilities, comes from the book's first edition. The excerpt's closing pages reflect Neustadt's later musings on the nation, on world aftairs, and on the challenges presidents face. IN THE EARLY summer of 1952, before the heat of the cam- paign, President (Harry] Truman used to contemplate the problems of the general-become-President should [Dwight David] Eisenhower win the forthcoming election. "He'll sit here,"Truman would remark (tapping his desk for emphasis)."and he'll say, Do this! Do that!" And nothing will hapem. Poor Ike-it won't be a bit like the Army. He'll find it very frus- rating r evidently found it so. "In the face of the continuing dis- ndence and disunity, the President sometimes simply exploded with exas- Ptration," wrote Robert Donovan in comment on the early months of s first term. "What was the use, he demanded to know, of his was not lim- trying to lead the Republican Party.... " And this reaction ited an Eisenhower an Eigshy months alone, or to his party only."The President sill feels," r aide remarked to me in 1958, "that when he's decidecd g, that ought to be the end of it and when it bounces back or done wrong, he tends to react with shocked surprise. Ifuman knew whereof he spoke. With "resignation" in the place he aide's description would have fitted Truman. The enator may have been less shocked than the former general, but a, do ss subjected to that painful and repetitive experience: "Do that, andi s o do ad" Long before he came to talk of yingt that, and r put his own experience in other words: "I sit here all persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense

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The tow legislative powers vested with the president are as follows:

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